Basketball's No. 1 Anti-Fan

Chapter 368 The Strongest Tactics in the Small Ball Era

Han Sen couldn't hold back this time, and walked to Kuzma and reminded him.

It's not to remind him to pay attention to his words and actions, but to make him be careful of James' revenge.

After all, he is an experienced person. He was tripped by James in the finals that year. Thanks to his "iron bones", he is not afraid of James' little tricks at all.

But Kuzma is different. If he is not careful, he will take over Hayward's role in "history".

Kuzma nodded vigorously.

In fact, he is very smart.

If it were someone else, knowing that they had offended James before, they would hide away when they met James on the court.

But he knew he couldn't escape, so he took the initiative to attack.

He actually knew what Han Sen said. After all, if he didn't understand James, how could he be a qualified James hater?
Sure enough, James used his elbow on Kuzma again during the offense, and this time it was even more rude than before, directly targeting Kuzma's head.

Kuzma fell to the ground and the referee called an offensive foul on James.

Han Sen then stepped forward and grabbed James. James also seemed very excited. The players from both sides quickly confronted each other and there was chaos on the court.

The referee's quick whistle finally separated the players on both sides and the game entered a technical timeout.

Just as the video was being played back, the scene was thrown into a huge commotion.

It turned out that the video replay showed that Kuzma had already dodged in advance, and that move just now was just a small show of his acting skills.

Han Sen laughed speechlessly after watching the video. No wonder James was so excited. This guy's acting skills fooled him.

This kid really has a bright future.

After the timeout, the Cavaliers have the ball.

Although Kuzma was faking a fall, the NBA rules will not change once the whistle blows.

But just after coming back, Hansen found that James was looking at him viciously.

It's just a touch of your neck, is it that serious?
What Han Sen didn't know was that the way James looked at him at that moment had nothing to do with the way he had just put his neck on him.

But he is very familiar with Kuzma's approach, because that's what Hansen did back then!

Needless to say, Kuzma's actions were definitely directed by Hansen.

Han Sen is now famous, and it is inconvenient for him to take action himself, so he just uses his subordinates to deal with him?
So fucking insidious!
Hansen, who was unaware that he was being blamed, continued to hold the ball and play pick-and-roll with Covington. After being double-teamed, he was about to pass the ball but suddenly noticed Kuzma who was getting rid of Moore and cutting into the basket.

This guy is really proactive on the court.

Hansen passed the ball directly to Kuzma through a gap, and Kuzma received the ball and made a layup.

But this time he experienced a "Welcome to the NBA" type of experience. Davis, who was near the free throw line a second ago, quickly returned to defense and directly slammed his shot onto the backboard.

Kuzma wanted to grab the rebound, but his jumping speed and arm span were no match for Davis, and Davis grabbed the rebound with a block.

The Pelicans made a fast break, and James again abandoned Covington early, and scored a fast break layup after receiving the ball.

The score was tied at 14, and the two teams were evenly matched.

The Pelicans are underrated.

In history, even if James had not come, the team still made it to the playoffs after some running-in.

Even when Cousins ​​only played half a season due to injury, they were only one win away from the third-placed Trail Blazers in the Western Conference.

The poor performance last season was more due to problems of running-in.

Looking back, Han Sen began to position himself in the low post.

The previous offensive round made him notice one thing: in order to deal with the pick-and-roll between him and Jokic, the Pelicans have been using Davis to defend Jokic.

Although their pick-and-rolls were effective before, they were very difficult to perform.

Defensive resources like Holiday and Davis are rare in the league who can directly compete with their pick-and-roll.

So at this time, it is a better choice to let Jokic pull Davis to the outside.

Moreover, low-post singles can reduce physical energy consumption.

Holiday played excellent defense and tried to go around Hansen, but Hansen's excellent positioning skills and strength advantage prevented him from succeeding in the end.

Jokic's pass was also delivered accurately at this time.

Hansen backed down Holiday, and after using a pass to force back the Pelicans' wing defense, he turned around and shot with a fade away.

Holiday's center of gravity dropped due to Han Sen's counterattack, and when he saw Han Sen take off, he could only jump symbolically.

The basketball went over Holiday's head and into the pocket.

There was a commotion in the place.

After returning to Cleveland, Hansen played more face-to-face offense in order to adapt to Malone's one-star-four-shooting tactical system.

But that is just an option. He is now at the peak of his career and can switch back and forth between face-to-face and back-to-the-basket techniques with enough dominance in both.

After seeing this change on the sidelines, Gentry had to shrink his defense more resolutely in the next defensive round.

This was exactly what Han Sen wanted.

In a sense, this is a low-level version of One Star Shines.

Davis went to the basket to assist Hansen from the free throw line, and Hansen passed the ball to Jokic.

Because they were afraid of Jokic's pass, the Pelicans did not make a defensive rotation at the first time, but relied on Davis' return to defense.

However, this was obviously too difficult for Davis.

He can quickly defend from the free throw line to the three-point line, but you ask him to get from the low post to the three-point line?

He's not the Flash!
Unless Jokic hesitates, he will definitely be too late.

In fact, Jokic did not hesitate at all. When he noticed that no one was defending him, he raised his hand and shot a three-pointer.

"Shh!"

With a crisp sound, Jokic's three-pointer came up and fell.

The performance of other players on the Cavaliers has declined this season, but that has not affected Jokic's progress.

In addition to his increased dominance in the low post, his outside shooting has also been outstanding this season.

Last season he averaged 1.6 three-point attempts per game and shot 32.4%.

But this season, his number of shots has increased significantly to 3.7 times, and his hit rate is 39.6%!

This number of shots and hit rate are already elite levels for a center.

Again, Jokic is the only center who can gain weight and improve his shooting at the same time. This is talent.

About 9 minutes into the first quarter, the score was 27 to 21, with the Cavaliers leading.

The Pelicans are a very strong team, but they cannot withstand the presence of two bug-like players, Hansen and Jokic. Moreover, after Malone adjusted the lineup tonight, the Cavaliers' offensive space on the court was obviously better.

Both sides started to rotate, and Wade also took to the field at this time.

To Han Sen's surprise, James did not travel during peak hours tonight.

Is this the young James turning into the old James? No, it shouldn't be. The greater possibility is that the new drug puts a greater burden on the body than the previous one.

This can also be explained pharmacologically. After all, explosive power and endurance are two relatively contradictory directions for the human body.

Even if James has historical-level physical fitness, it is difficult for him to withstand being stretched to the limit in two directions at the same time, which would be really fatal.

However, even if James did not play, the offensive firepower of the Pelicans' substitute transition period was not weak at all, with Rajon Rondo and Nick Young on the outside, and Mirotic and Tyler Zeller in the inside.

With Nike's support behind the scenes, the Pelicans also built a very competitive team in the summer.

However, Wade played very bravely on the Cavaliers side.

Rose no longer means the Cavaliers have lost their sixth man, but they had their own sixth man before signing Rose.

Even though his form has declined, after waking up last season, Wade, like Kuzma and Irving, automatically became bloodthirsty when facing James' team.

The competition between the two sides was very fierce, and the two teams were tied at 92 after three quarters.

When the game entered the decisive stage, the Pelicans' weaknesses were exposed.

When James' team lacks a strong finishing point, once it reaches the critical moment, it will face an embarrassing scoring drought.

This has been verified more than once during the Cavaliers 1.0 era, the Thunder, and the Knicks era.

As for James himself, he did not have that ability until he improved his post-up, mid-range, three-point, step-back, and turnaround fadeaway techniques to an elite level.

Maybe on a certain night when his touch is good he can perform well in the final quarter, but more often than not he is invisible.

Han Sen was right that the new medicine couldn't save James.

But for the Cavaliers, at this moment, it is Hansen's personal performance stage.

Hansen showed off his various weapons and scored 21 points in a single quarter.

Under his leadership, the Cavaliers scored 36 to 23 in the final quarter and defeated the Pelicans 126 to 113.

韩森全场得到46分7板7助攻，詹姆斯全场24分10板11助攻。

The battle between the world's strongest (self-proclaimed) and the league's strongest also had a final result after the game.

James still holds the all-around title, but that's all he has left.

"LeBron should wear his crown again, otherwise it will belong to Kyle (Kuzma)."

At the post-match press conference, when a reporter asked whether Kuzma's celebration during the game was disrespectful, Hansen smiled and joked.

What Kuzma did in the game was exactly the same as what Hansen did, or what James did in his "history". If you make something cheap, it loses its class.

The nickname Hansen cheapened at the time was "Truth", James was "goat", and Kuzma was "Crown".

After Kuzma did this and Hansen said this, James might never want to wear a crown on himself again.

After finishing the game with the Pelicans, the Cavaliers returned to Cleveland.

Just before the training session started the next day, Ma Long called Han Sen to his office.

After the game against the Pelicans, he had new ideas about the team's tactical system.

He believes that neither the pick-and-roll tactic nor the one-star-four-shooting tactic is the most suitable tactic for the Cavaliers.

"Off-position singles is the simplest and most efficient."

Malone was inspired by Hansen's low-post pressure against the Pelicans.

Although Holiday is a point guard, he is 1 meters tall and defending Hansen, who is 93 meters tall, is a mismatch.

Han Sen wasn't that surprised when he heard this word.

Instead, he felt that Malone had awakened.

This sounds a bit strange. After all, Malone has excellent tactical ability, but in fact his previous tactical system is still stuck in the past era.

The simplest and most efficient approach in the small ball era is to play one-on-one with a mismatch.

Basketball isn't that complicated when a team has an absolute strong point.

Create a dislocation, and if you don't double-team, you can hit the ball, and if you do double-team, you can pass the ball.

This way of fighting is the simplest, most efficient and energy-saving way for Han Sen.

What’s more, after Jokic’s improvement this season, the Cavaliers also have Jokic who has this ability.

So the simplest tactic is: Han Sen plays, and after Han Sen plays, Jokic plays; Jokic plays, and after Jokic plays, Han Sen plays.

What Malone has to do is to use tactics to create the most energy-saving mismatch singles opportunities for them.

What remains is to equip the court with the most suitable space points so that the offense on the court can be completed more by them rather than other role players.

After seeing that Han Sen agreed with his tactical understanding, Ma Long could not hide his excitement.

Because he knew that this simple yet unsolvable tactic would be the final step for the Cavaliers to complete their dynasty.

After getting over his excitement, Ma Long remembered another thing.

"I want you to talk Derek into it."

The first thing Malone did after returning to Cleveland yesterday was to persuade Rose.

But the effect is not good.

Ross now felt like he had been kicked into an abyss, and he had completely lost the will to fight.

"How can I persuade him?"

Although Han Sen has a system, he is not a god and cannot change the reality that Ross is injured.

Moreover, Rose just joined the Cavaliers this season, and the relationship between Hansen and him is actually quite ordinary.

"Derrick is very important to us. If we really can't persuade him to come back, we have to make plans early."

What Malone said is very realistic. Although Wade performed well against the Pelicans, his decline in form is inevitable. Including JR, TT and others, they are basically not worth trading in their current state.

In this case, a good-form Rose is indeed important to the Cavaliers.

Ma Long knew that this would put Han Sen in a difficult position, but he had no better solution.

Han Sen finally nodded and agreed to give it a try.

When Hansen met Ross, he noticed that he had a long beard and unkempt hair, giving him a decadent look.

This is completely different from the Rose at the beginning of the season.

But this is understandable. At that time, Rose was full of longing to join a championship team.

But now, injuries have once again pinned him to the ground.

This is also the reason why Hansen and Malone said he didn't know how to persuade Rose. He had never experienced the situation that Rose had experienced, so he couldn't resonate with Rose.

So the only way Han Sen could think of that might rekindle Ross's fighting spirit was actually only one: what Ross was still missing.

After a brief conversation with Ross, Han Sen also asked the same question:

"Derrick, I won't advise you to continue your career, because I know you will probably encounter such a situation again. Retirement may really be a relief for you, but what I want to say or ask is that you should think carefully about whether this is your only chance to compete for the championship in your life."

(End of this chapter)